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# Re: Composition area

- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:06:13 PDT
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- Cc: moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
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    At 11:25 AM 10/25/96 PDT, you wrote:
    >Greetings,
    >
    >Awhile back I was visiting different MOO sites and found a site that allowed
    >you to set an input mode where what the user was typing would not be
    >interupted by the noise in the room.  I thought this must have been a common
    >feature so I did not pay more attention to it.  Now on our educational MOO,
    >the main complaint we have is that comments being composed by one user are
    >constantly being interupted by other users comments.
    >
    >How can we set up the MOO so that when a user starts a comment or command,
    >other traffic will not interrupt their typing?  Any and all help is always
    >appreciated.

    Are your users using telnet or a client?  If they are using telnet, then
    what they type will have new received input interspered with it.  If you are
    using a client, tinyfuge is a good one, then it redraws the input line for
    you, to keep input and output separate, or it offers a dual window approach.

    You could also modify certain verbs to ask for an output lock for a player,
    and then only that task can tell the player something, everything else will
    be buffered untiled the lock is removed.  It's better to use a client
    program tho.

    Andy.

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